This afternoon, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington State Department of Ecology, and Whatcom County (the co-lead agencies) are holding the seventh in a series of scoping meetings to determine how to best proceed with an environmental impact statement for the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal and Custer railroad spur at the Washington State Convention […]
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Fallout from anonymously-produced video mocking Islam continues all over Middle East
Less than one hundred hours after the eleven year anniversary of September 11th, Islamic fundamentalists have seized upon an anonymously-produced video that mocks Islam to fan the flames of anti-American sentiment all across the Middle East… in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Lebanon, and other countries. The U.S. Department of State on Thursday issued travel warnings […]
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Terrorist attack in Benghazi kills American ambassador to Libya, two U.S. Marines
U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher J. Stevens, Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith and two U.S. Marines were killed yesterday when terrorists attacked the American consulate in Benghazi with rocket-propelled grenades and firearms during a protest by angry Libyans upset with a trailer for an anonymously-produced film that denigrates Islam, the White House has confirmed. […]
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President Barack Obama names a great progressive, Jim Yong Kim, as America’s choice to head the World Bank
Heartening news from the Other Washington this morning: President Barack Obama has named Dartmouth president Jim Yong Kim — a global health expert and a skilled progressive leader — as the United States’ choice to head the World Bank after Robert Zoellick steps down in June. “Jim has spent more than two decades working to improve […]
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America’s occupation of Iraq will end with the close of 2011, President Obama confirms
America’s occupation of Iraq will come to a close as originally promised, President Obama said at the White House on Friday, confirming that all American forces — with the exception of a token force left to guard the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad — will be pulling out of Iraq by year’s end. “Over the next […]
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Iran frees Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal — two U.S. hikers it has imprisoned since 2009
Iran’s autocratic regime today freed two American hikers that it has held in prison for more than two years in a move it called a “humanitarian gesture”. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, both twenty-nine, were allowed to leave Iran’s infamous Evin prison and taken by a diplomatic caravan to an Iranian airport. They were then […]
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Homegrown Norweigan terrorist is a right wing eliminationist, authorities say
Although fewer than one hundred hours have transpired since the world learned of the horrific terrorist attacks in Oslo and Utøya, we’re already starting to get a clearer portrait of the man who Norwegian authorities say was the mastermind behind the cold-blooded spate of killing and destruction. Anders Behring Breivik, thirty-two, appears to be the […]
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Tragedy in Norway: Explosions, shootings injure or take lives of dozens
Inexplicable, unexpected tragedy has struck again, this time in Norway: Norway suffered dual attacks on Friday when powerful explosions shook the government center here and, shortly after, a gunman stalked youths at an island summer camp for young members of the governing Labor Party. The police arrested a Norwegian in connection with both attacks, which […]
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LIVE from Minneapolis: Building a stronger netroots community abroad
Here in the United States, we don’t always hear about efforts abroad to utilize social media and develop new ways of organizing online, because we don’t give our neighbors in the world community much attention. But we ought to, because progressives in other countries are trying to make use of the Internet to bring about […]
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Conservatives clinch majority in Canadian Parliament; New Dems now the opposition
You wouldn’t know it from watching American cable television or reading American newspapers, but Canada today held a major federal election to determine who will sit in the House of Commons of the 41st Canadian Parliament. (For those readers not familiar with Canadian politics, the House of Commons is their equivalent to our House of […]
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BREAKING: Osama bin Laden is dead, officials say; President Obama addresses the nation
Details are sketchy as of this hour, but America’s television networks, citing multiple sources, are reporting that U.S. forces have killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and have possession of his body. President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak to the nation shortly. The administration has not officially confirmed the news, but the president is […]
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Meet the Hypocrites: U.S. foreign policy
Earlier tonight, President Obama laid out his case justifying the need for U.S. military intervention in Libya, where coalition forces under the auspices of a United Nations resolution have been knocking out the air defenses of its brutal dictator. The United States and its allies are working to prevent Muammar al-Gaddafi from continuing to kill […]